He came equal second on 4/5 (two draws).

He was the highest rated player playing at 2211.

What's the worst tournament performance for a super GM?

Igor Ivanov was just a regular GM but this is up there:
http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?199801053260

Wasn't Danny Rensch (who beat Igor) very underrated then? He became a national master less than 2 years later.

This doesn't excuse Igor from losing to Michael D. Fitch (rated 1360) in the last round.

A friend of mine was playing Igor Ivanov in Bermuda, and Igor was so inebriated that he fell asleep during the game. My friend woke him up, and went on to lose.

Wasn't Igor only an IM? And I think he had massive drinking problems and was super high variance. Iirc

A late candidate for The Super-GM Game of the Year:

The Najdorf always reminds me that I know nothing about chess.

Finally managed to do this in a game.

One obviously needs a cooperating opponent, but it's fun to go "ah, that doesn't happen only in tactics trainers".

I actually lol'd.

Prodigy update: the only non-GM with a plus score at the World Rapid Championship (after day 2) is Alireza Firouzja.

Among many others at 5.5/10, he's tied with Nakamura!

Hey, I suck at chess. I'd like to be better. Enjoy working on tactics online, but my strategy is pretty clueless - please recommend me some books. I'd like something on openings - no desire to memorise a bunch of different lines but it would be good to avoid being lost within 10 moves so often. Outside of openings have little idea about stuff like which side to castle on, when to trade and when not to trade pieces, when to push pawns etc. I know it's generally good to develop bishops but I have trouble working out when I'd want to fianchetto and when I want to push it to b5, how to identify my opponent's weakness, how to identify what my opponent wants to achieve & the best way to stop it and so on. So a couple of books or youtube series that could me thinking the right way would be great too.

Jerry (ChessNetwork) has an ongoing playlist called Beginner to Chess Master

John Bartholomew has a good series called Climbing the Rating Ladder

A couple of books that helped me starting out were:
- Logical Chess: Move by Move, by Irving Chernev
- Simple Chess, by Michael Stean

Dan Heisman's series Novice Nook I found quite good. If you wanna put time in I'd recommend Comprehensive Chess Course, both volumes. Logical Chess: Move by Move also good. Silman's Complete Endgame Course also a must read.

I'm not sure if I'm going to like the new 'Quick game' (autopairing) feature on lichess. Fortunately, it has the 5+3 and 15+15 time controls, I hope there's enough traffic in these pools.

Not sure if this is the correct thread but interesting problem.